For free? Probably not.

Wireguard has been audited by some University groups, maybe contact one of them:

• https://www.cerias.purdue.edu/assets/pdf/bibtex_archive/2021-3.pdf
• https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.857/2018/project/He-Xu-Xu-WireGuard.pdf

I think its better to keep your gateway basic, and run extra services on a separate raspi or similar. Let your router/gateway focus on routing packets.

Openwrt can run Adguard, and as long as your gateway can run docker, you can probably get pihole working.

For openwrt+wireguard, see: https://cameroncros.github.io/wifi-condom.html

Looks like tailscale should work in openwrt: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/vpn/tailscale/start

For the wireguard server, I am using firezone, but they have pivoted to being a tailscale clone, so I am on the legacy version, which is unsupported: https://www.firezone.dev/docs/deploy/docker

Edit: fixed link

That is likely a speed test server within the same data center as your vps, or they have special traffic shaping rules for it.

Try using iperf from your local box to the VPS and see what speeds you get

OSSIM is a pain to install, but does tick all your boxes. But I think its basically abandoned by AT&T to force people on to Alienvault.

It installs to a VM, but has some very weird hard coded quirks, like expecting the network cards to be ethX, and the harddisks to be /dev/sdX. I can’t remember exactly how I got it installed, but I can dig out the libvirt config if it helps.

Never heard that term, but its a very obscure concept, so wouldn’t surprise me if it had multiple names. Probably vender specific names?

Seems quite a few people havent heard of it, hence a lot of the split DNS answers :/

I can’t remember exactly what its called, but something like router NAT loopback is what you want. I’ll have a look around. But if you set it right, things should work properly. It might be a router setting.

Found it: https://community.tp-link.com/en/home/stories/detail/1726

I am also Aussie, but I’ve been buying from Aliexpress of late. Maybe should try some Mirabella bulbs again, last time I bought them it was after the first OTA exploit was fixed, but before cloudcutter. Had to slice open the bulbs and flash via serial.

Are you just getting stuff from Costco?

Have they updated it for new stuff? Last time I tried it cloudcutter was patched in new stuff :(

I saw a 1.5hr video published a few hours ago, dunno if it got removed. Description did say it would be edited and reuploaded.

4 cores is a bit limiting, but definitely depends on the usage. I only have 1 VM on my NUC, everything else is docker.

I thought all the core processors had VT* extensions, I was using virtualization on my first gen i7. They are very old an inefficient now though.

Are you from Tuya? They seem hellbent on locking their stuff down to the cloud.

Perhaps point out to your management that IOT is an enthusiast driven market. If you appease the enthusiasts, they will recommend your products to their less technically inclined friends.

Enthusiasts want both: a good initial software ecosystem, and the option to break out of that if required. If your company can offer that, even if it involves voiding the warrenty, we’ll buy and recommend their stuff.

In the case of Tuya, their stuff was historically super easy to open, solder some jumpers and flash (or exploit the OTA to flash). I bought loads of their power boards and lights. In some ways I was an ideal consumer, I bought their stuff, voided the warrenty immediately (so no support calls), and never used their cloud, so didn’t waste their resources. Now they are making it near impossible, and I won’t touch their stuff.

All that said, good luck, your gonna need it.

I5 3470 is old, but its not that bad. Lots of people are homelabing on NUCs which are only very slightly faster. Performance per Watt will be terrible though. (I am on an i7-10710u, and I’ve yet to run out of steam so far - https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-10710U-vs-Intel-Core-i5-3470/m900004vs2771 )

It has VTx/VTd, so should be okay for proxmox, what makes you think it won’t work well?

You have a typo: platform: esphome.

Thanks for posting, good catch!

At 8tb, I can’t find any, but here is a 5tb disk:

https://www.amazon.com.au/Seagate-Barracuda-Internal-Drive-Factor/dp/B01LXO31IZ/ref=mp_s_a_1_13

Check the thickness though, your device may not accept 15mm disks.

The OPs device can take a nvme SSD and an internal HDD. Unclear if the current SSD is nvme or not though, but I assumed it was nvme.

The USB connection will likely be quite slow, and some external harddisks will power save aggressively.

You could get a largish 2.5" HDD and hook it up internally, might be a middle ground cost-wise?

I cant test this, but should it be something like:

# Example button configuration
button:
  - platform: template
    name: Livingroom Lazy Mood 1
    id: my_button

    # Optional variables:
    icon: "mdi:emoticon-outline"
    on_press:
      - logger.log: "Button 1 pressed"
  - platform: template
    name: Livingroom Lazy Mood 2
    id: my_button2

    # Optional variables:
    icon: "mdi:emoticon-outline"
    on_press:
      - logger.log: "Button 2 pressed"

As for the other thing, that might be something you need to write your own driver for? if you need some inspiration, this repo has a driver for mitsubishi heatpumps, which does something similar (read/write to a uart): https://github.com/echavet/MitsubishiCN105ESPHome

Homeassistant is another option. Host the server and run the app on your phone. Its not very granular though, and the user interface is not great